Ulrike Lunacek

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 Ulrike Lunacek (2015)
Ulrike Lunacek (2015)

Ulrike Lunacek ([ ˈluːnatʃɛk ], born May 26, 1957 in Krems an der Donau , Lower Austria ) is an Austrian politician ( The Greens ).

She was the head of the Austrian Greens delegation in the European Parliament and Vice-President of the European Parliament from July 2014 to October 2017 . From 1999 to 2009 she was a member of the Austrian National Council, before moving to the EU Parliament as a member of the European Parliament until November 2017. In the 2017 National Council election in Austria , Lunacek was the Greens' top candidate . After a large loss of votes and the departure of the Greens from the National Council, she resigned from all party offices and as a member of the EU on October 17, 2017. In the Federal Government Kurz II she returned to politics for a short time as State Secretary for Art and Culture. After criticizing her actions during the COVID-19 pandemic , she resigned from her position after four months.

(from left to right) Matthias Strolz ( NEOS ), Heinz-Christian Strache ( FPÖ ), Christian Kern ( SPÖ ), Sebastian Kurz ( ÖVP ), Ulrike Lunacek ( The Greens ) at the ORF - elephant round for the National Council election in Austria 2017

Life

Lunacek attended grammar school in Kleine Sperlgasse in Vienna's 2nd district from 1967 to 1975 , and from 1973 to 1974 she spent a year as an AFS student at a high school in Iowa in the United States. In 1975 she participated in the University of Innsbruck an interpreter study for English and Spanish on which she graduated 1,983th During this time she was already involved in setting up the Innsbruck women's shelter and also did social work there. Between 1982 and 1984 she took part in several productions at Theater Brett in Vienna. From 1984 to 1986 she worked as a consultant for the organization of women's solidarity in Vienna. Afterwards she was editor of the Südwind magazine and press officer of the Austrian Information Service for Development Policy (ÖIE). She worked as a freelance interpreter, journalist and speaker.

In 1994, Lunacek was an NGO delegate at the UN World Population Conference in Cairo and coordinated press work for the non-governmental organizations for the World Conference on Women in Beijing . Since 1994 Lunacek has lived with Rebeca Sevilla, who works for Education International in Brussels.

Political career

Lunacek's political career began in 1995 with the moderation of the Appeal to Reason, organized by the Austrian Lesbian and Gay Forum in Palais Auersperg , and the first candidacy for the Greens, of which she was federal manager from 1996 to 1998. From 1999 to 2009 she was a member of the National Council and a foreign and development policy spokesperson for the Green Club, as well as a spokesperson for equality between lesbians , gays and transgender people . Also from 1999 she was deputy chairwoman of the foreign affairs committee of the National Council, from 2002 also chairwoman of the Greens parliamentary group in the main committee.

As the first openly lesbian politician in the National Council, she is also a member of the Greens Andersrum . She came out in 1980. On May 5, 2006, Lunacek was elected co-chair of the European Green Party in Helsinki . She worked in this role for three years. On October 28, 2008, she was appointed deputy chairwoman of the Greens in the National Council and was nominated as a top candidate for the 2009 European elections to the European Parliament .

Lunacek moved into the European Parliament on 14 July 2009 as head of the Austrian Greens delegation and was a member of the “Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET)”, the “Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM)” and the “Delegation to the EU-Armenia, EU-Azerbaijan and EU-Georgia parliamentary cooperation committees (DSCA)”. She was also a deputy member of the "Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE)", the "Delegation for relations with Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro and Kosovo (DSEE)" and the "Delegation to the EURONEST Parliamentary Assembly (DEPA) ”. She was also the European Parliament's rapporteur for Kosovo and foreign policy spokesperson for the Greens / EFA group. As part of the Intergroup on LGBT Rights, of which Lunacek was co-president, she also campaigned for the rights of lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender people.

Ulrike Lunacek (r.) With Conchita Wurst (l.) In the European Parliament (2014)

In February 2013, Lunacek was elected Vice-President of the Greens / EFA group in the European Parliament. On December 1, she became the top candidate for the Greens in the European elections on May 25, 2014 , after she was voted first on the list at the Greens federal congress in Salzburg with 81.6 percent of the delegate's votes. In this election she and the Greens achieved 14.52 percent and thus the best election result ever achieved by the party nationwide. This meant gaining another mandate, which is why the Austrian Greens are now represented with three mandates in the European Parliament.

On July 1, 2014, she was elected as one of the Vice-Presidents of the European Parliament and on May 19, 2017 by the party executive board as the top candidate for the 2017 National Council election . After the Greens were voted out of the National Council, Lunacek resigned on October 17, 2017 from all functions at Austrian and European level. In 2020 she returned to active politics in Austria and has been State Secretary for Art and Culture since January 7th. On May 15, 2020, she announced her resignation from office due to criticism of her actions in the corona crisis .

Awards

Publications

Web links

Commons : Ulrike Lunacek  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Homepage of Ulrike Lunacek ( Memento from June 24, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  2. ^ Archives of Theater Brett
  3. ↑ Stenographic Protocols of the National Council, XXII. Legislative period, 112th session, June 8, 2005, p. 217 .
  4. ^ E. Znaymer: Your own story ( Memento from January 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). In: date . No. 2, February 1, 2006
  5. ↑ http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/de/97017/ULRIKE_LUNACEK_history.html
  6. ↑ http://www.lgbt-ep.eu/about/presidents/ , accessed on May 25, 2013
  7. ↑ http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/de/97017/ULRIKE_LUNACEK_history.html
  8. ↑ Greens: Lunacek's top candidate in EU elections , Der Standard , December 1, 2013, accessed on May 15, 2020.
  9. ↑ Final final result, BMI: http://www.bmi.gv.at/cms/BMI_wahlen/europawahl/2014/Gesamterresult.aspx
  10. ↑ EU election: Karas in first place, Greens and FPÖ are growing strongly. In: kurier.at. May 25, 2014, accessed December 24, 2017 .
  11. ↑ http://www.gruene.at/themen/vereinigte-staat-von-europa/das-beste-wahlresult-ever-aber-jetzt- geht-s- los
  12. ↑ Lunacek elected Vice-President of the EU Parliament. In: DiePresse.com. July 1, 2014, accessed February 20, 2018 .
  13. ↑ Greens: Felipe becomes party leader, Lunacek top candidate . In: The press . ( diepresse.com [accessed on May 19, 2017]).
  14. ↑ After the election debacle: Felipe and Lunacek resign. Kronen Zeitung , October 17, 2017, accessed on October 17, 2017 .
  15. ^ Theo Anders, Jan Michael Marchart: Resignation of Ulrike Lunacek: The curtain falls. In: The Standard . May 15, 2020, accessed May 16, 2020 .
  16. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Lunacek, Ulrike
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (Greens), member of the National Council, MEP
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Krems at the Donau